The new President of the country will be sworn in at 2pm today. This follows the resignation of former President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday night.
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa confers the powers to appoint and remove the President of the Republic of South Africa on the National Assembly.
The President is elected in terms of Section 86 of the Constitution. His or her term of office begins on assuming office and ends upon a vacancy occurring or when the person next elected Pres ...

A high-powered team of experts from the World Conservation Union (IUCN) held a meeting with the SADC Food Agriculture & Natural Resources (FANR) Directorate in Gaborone, Botswana on 6 February 2018 to discuss areas of collaboration between the two organisations.

A high-powered team of experts from the World Conservation Union (IUCN) held a meeting with the SADC Food Agriculture & Natural Resources (FANR) Directorate in Gaborone, Botswana on 6 February 2018 to discuss areas of collaboration between the two organisations.
The IUCN Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa (ESARO), Mr Luther Bois Anukur headed the team of IUCN experts in strategic partnerships, biodiversity conservation, water conservation and management of drylands.

The Department of Water and Sanitation and various stakeholders have launched the #SaveWater Ambassador Programme to foster responsibility towards saving water resources in the City of Cape Town and the rest of the country.

The National Planning Commission (NPC) says urgent steps must be taken to restore confidence in the economy in order to reduce poverty, unemployment and inequality.
“The trends pertaining to key objectives of the National Development Plan (NDP), namely, to reduce poverty, inequality and unemployment have seen a backward slide,” said the NPC at its third annual NPC Lekgotla.
The NPC’s statement is informed by the registered GDP growth rates of average 3% between 2010 and 2013, the low growth tr ...

South Africa’s unemployment rate eased to 26.7% in the fourth quarter of 2017, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) announced on Tuesday.
“As of the last quarter of 2017, unemployment was sitting at 26.7%,” Statistician General Risenga Maluleke told reporters at a media briefing in Tshwane.
In the third quarter, South Africa’s unemployment rate remained unchanged at 27.7% as was in the second quarter.
In the fourth quarter, unemployment decreased by 330 000.

The Reserve Bank has established a programme that will assess the emergence of technologies applied to financial services.
“… the SARB recently established the Financial Technology (FinTech) Programme to strategically assess the emergence of FinTech in a structured and organised manner, and to consider its regulatory implications,” said the central bank on Tuesday.
The main goal of the programme is to track and analyse FinTech developments and to assist policymakers in formulating frameworks i ...

The South African Post Office (SAPO) Chief Operating Officer, Lindiwe Kwele, says the migration of grant beneficiaries to Postbank has already commenced.
Kwele on Tuesday said that the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has signed off on the new card design for social grant beneficiaries and that after a purchase order is issued to the preferred bidder on Friday, the first batch of two million cards is expected to be delivered on 16 March 2018.
After this, two million cards will be ...